Source: Richard Stradling, NEWS & OBSERVER, 1/29/18


Before they can build the six-lane Triangle Expressway across southern Wake County, state officials must show that the highway won’t do serious harm to two rare species of mussels that live in streams there.The centerpiece of the state’s strategy is a laboratory that would operate as a mussel hatchery. The N.C. Department of Transportation has proposed to spend $2 million to upgrade an existing lab used by N.C. State University researchers...

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